{"id":29568,"date":"2026-04-01T13:01:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T17:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=29568"},"modified":"2026-04-01T13:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T17:02:18","slug":"sen-ossoff-strengthening-emergency-response-efforts-in-spalding-county","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-strengthening-emergency-response-efforts-in-spalding-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Strengthening Emergency Response Efforts in Spalding County\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Griffin, Ga.\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014\u00a0U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is delivering resources to strengthen emergency services in Spalding County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff brought Republicans and Democrats together to\u00a0help upgrade the Spalding County Sheriff Office\u2019s helicopter rescue\u00a0infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Sheriff\u2019s Office, the County experienced difficulties in emergency response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton, and this new infrastructure will better help them lower and lift personnel and victims out of water and other difficult-to-access areas during emergencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff is delivering $175,000\u00a0for the project through bipartisan government funding legislation\u00a0that became law on\u00a0January\u00a023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI brought Republicans and Democrats together to deliver these Federal resources for upgrades to Spalding County&#8217;s helicopter rescue capabilities and help ensure the best emergency care when needed,\u201d\u00a0<strong>Sen. Ossoff said.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Griffin, Ga.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is delivering resources to strengthen emergency services in Spalding County. Sen. Ossoff brought Republicans and Democrats together to\u00a0help upgrade the Spalding County Sheriff Office\u2019s helicopter rescue\u00a0infrastructure. According to the Sheriff\u2019s Office, the County experienced difficulties in emergency response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton, and this new infrastructure will better help [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29568","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29570,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29568\/revisions\/29570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}